Pat Farrell wrote:
lnxguru wrote:
The performance of X is actually very good from my experience. VNC is
definetly easier. Both will be negatively impacted by "busy" desktops.
Of course with Linux/Unix you don't have to run full desktops --
WindowMaker of Fluxbox are lightweight. Telnet/ssh are even lighter.
I'm a little surprized about this whole thread.
While most of my computers are some flavor of Linux,
and my Slimserver is running on Mandriva, I very
rarely use an X-window into it. Mostly, I ignore it
completely, it runs and works. When I do stuff, it
is nearly always with an ssh shell.
All the graphical GUI stuff is nice for some people,
but hardly needed to manage a SlimServer.
And I hardly ever manage mine, it runs Samba, I
rip files on Windows and drag and drop them
onto the SlimServer, and I'm done.
I ran Linux on server and laptop for years before I bothered to get it
working, and I don't use it now :) Sure, you don't usually need it, but
when you do it's handy (DrakConf and YAST2 come to mind, both are
clunkier in their ncurses implementations).
--
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Riding the Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Since 1996
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